Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US?

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 9, 2008 @07:30AM from the hug-a-tsa-agent-with-fervor-and-passion dept.

casualsax3 writes "I'm going to be taking a week long round trip from NYC to Puerto Vallarta Mexico sometime next month, and I was planning on taking my laptop with me. I'll probably want to rip a few movies and albums to the drive in order to keep busy on the flight. More important though, is that I'm also going to be taking pictures while I'm there, and storing them on the laptop. With everything in the news, I'm concerned that I'll have to show someone around the internals of my laptop coming back into the US. The pictures are potentially what upsets me the most, as I feel it's an incredible violation of my privacy. Do I actually need to worry about this? If so, should I go about hiding everything? I've heard good things about Truecrypt. Is it worth looking into or am I being overly paranoid?"

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Re:You could. by doas777 · 2008-10-09 07:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

great sig man!
Re:If you're that worried... by KillerBob · 2008-10-09 09:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So... you're saying you'd rather have an old fart who's liable to die in office, and a VP who doesn't know what magazines she reads and believes that the world was created 6000 years ago, and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted?

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